Fellows in Residence

Dance

Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya

Multidisciplinary artists – Colombia/Japan/United States

Colombian-born Ximena Garnica and Japan-native Shige Moriya are a multidisciplinary artist duo based in New York, creating works ranging from sculptural, video, light, and mixed-media installation art to contemporary dance and theater performances, publications, and research projects. Their works ponder questions of being, perception, interdependency, and coexistence. Garnica and Moriya have received awards from the USA, including Creative Capital, National Dance Project, and National Endowment for the Arts. They are the co-artistic directors of LEIMAY and the LEIMAY Ensemble.

Ximena and Shige will be working on their multi-year and multi-part project, Extinction Rituals. They will organize and integrate materials from their envisioned dance opera, triptych video, photographic series, and environmental action campaign. They will also work on a related short collection of writings focusing on the subjects that guide their multidisciplinary artistic practice. This collection will be integrated into the LEIMAY archive, documenting 25+ years of history as a creative force in the NY performance landscape.

Film/Video

Salome Chasnoff

Filmmaker and installation artist – United States

Salome Chasnoff is a filmmaker and installation artist who is inspired by the enlightening, humanizing, and healing capacities of storytelling. She has collaborated on films with people with disabilities, queer and trans youth, older sex workers, rural health workers, and women in prison. Her awards include Purpose Prize Fellowship, Ida B. Wells Bravery in Journalism, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, and Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. She is a Senior Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Beyondmedia was a pioneering Chicago organization at the forefront of democratizing mediamaking in the 1990s-2000s, guiding marginalized people to make videos in their own voices and inject them into public discourse to influence issues affecting their lives. Weaving archival footage with new interviews, Chasnoff’s documentary will focus on the transformative power of narrative agency, asking in a time of unprecedented connectivity and unprecedented social disintegration if storytelling can still heal.

Humanities Scholarship

Catherine Conybeare

(Classics) – Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College – United Kingdom/United States

Catherine Conybeare teaches classics at Bryn Mawr College. Her most recent book, Augustine the African, places North Africa at the centre of Augustine of Hippo’s life and thought; it will be published by Liveright in 2025. She has written widely on the Latin literature and culture of late antiquity and is the editor of a series from Cambridge University Press, “Cultures of Latin”, which explores Latin as a continuous tradition from antiquity to the present.

The new project, Latin, Music, and Meaning, starts from two ideas: that a swathe of Western music is grounded in Latin, thanks to its emergence from hymnody and plainchant; and that it is through music that our contemporaries are most likely to encounter Latin. Four sections on hymns, plainchant, polyphony, and silence will be interspersed with case studies of pregnant Latin phrases in different musical settings to explore how the combination of words and music may generate meaning.

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Architecture

Doris Sung

Architect, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Southern California – United States

Doris Sung brings active systems to sustainable design far beyond the simple "greening" of a building. With the belief that buildings can be more sensitive to the changing environment like human skin, she seeks ways to make the building skin dynamic and responsive. Through grant-funded research, she is developing smart materials, such as thermobimetals, to self-ventilate, self-shade, self-structure, self-assemble and self-propel in response to changes in temperatures--all with zero-energy and no controls.

Witnessing smart materials move on their own is magical. For this purpose, this residency will be used to refine a series of pop-up designs made of paper and thermobimetal (a material that curls when heated). They will be distributed as literal laptop dynamic exhibitions in a book format. Additional time will be spent on refining the text and graphics of the publication. The pop-up pages will be arranged in a sunny interior location to freely react to the moving sun at the Bogliasco Foundation.

Dance

Nichole Canuso

Choreographer – United States

Nichole Canuso’s dedication to dance manifests as performances, installations, films and intimate dialogues. Her projects often use technology to bring performers and audiences together in tender exchanges. Her work has been awarded fellowships (Pew fellow 2017; New York Stage & Film fellow 2021) and presented nationally (New York Live Arts, American Repertory Theater, Los Angeles Performance Practice) and internationally (Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Czech Republic).

While in residence Nichole will be developing Lunar Retreat, a multi-sensory, interactive performance installation. Named after the slow, rhythmic inevitability of the growing distance between the earth and the moon, Lunar Retreat explores our individual and communal experiences of the cycles of caretaking, loss and transformation. Choreographic prompts on headphones will guide participants into a labyrinthine performance experience in which they can explore and reflect both alone and together.

Dance

Tess Dworman

Choreographer and performer – United States

Tess Dworman is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, performer, and audio describer. In New York, her work has been presented by many institutions including Abrons Art Center, the Chocolate Factory Theater, and Pageant. She performed and toured extensively in the work of Tere O’Connor and Juliana F. May. In 2020, Tess was honored as an “Outstanding Breakout Choreographer” by the Bessie New York Dance & Performance Awards.

During her fellowship, Tess will continue to develop a project entitled “The Con,” which merges her research in dance, impersonation, stand-up comedy, documentary filmmaking, and audio description. These forms come together through her longtime practice of solo improvisation. The ground for this work is a satirical questioning into the consumption of experimental performance, capitalistic provocations on liveness and presence, and the ethos of experimental performance in this time.